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OCONTO
COUNTY MILITARY SERVICE
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The USS
Oconto CountyThis
ship was a World War II vessel used to transport troops to the Pacific
and return the wounded servicemen to the United States. The ship was
dismantled
but the flag shown from her mast in this drawing and the brass plate on
her bow are in the Oconto County Historical Museum, Oconto, WI.Please click on the title
you wish to research.

SURING/ASIA
- MIA-Correction: Lt.
Francis Smedley was killed when the B-17 he
was piloting crashed in
Belgium. He is buried in an American cemetery in Belgium and has a
memorial marker at his mother's family's plot in Michigan.
Thank you.
Nancy Smedley Gleason
also see: Lt. Francis Smedley

OCONTO/OVER
BELGIUM - KILLED- Correction:
Captain Gene E. Sucharda was killed in Cobru, Belgium, while leading
his company in an attack on the German Army in the Battle of the Bulge.
Thank you to Major Clyde Bridger
USAF, Retired

TACHICK,
DENNIS

UNKNOWN/PFC

6/1945

BAGLEY/LUZON
- KILLED

TOUSIGNANT,
A.N. DR.

UNKNOWN/DOCTOR

5/7/1942

OCONTO/MANILA
- MIA

TOUSIGNANT,
A.N. DR.

UNKNOWN/DOCTOR

6/1945

OCONTO/LOST
IN PACIFIC - KILLED

VANORNICK,
HENRY

UNKNOWN/UNKNOWN

11/1945

OCONTO
CITY/UNKNOWN - KILLED

VERHAGEN,
ELMER

UNKNOWN/UNKNOWN

11/1945

OCONTO
CITY/UNKNOWN - KILLED

WASHEL,
GEORGE

UNKNOWN/UNKNOWN

11/1945

OCONTO
CITY/UNKNOWN - KILLED

WEGRZYN,
ADAM

UNKNOWN/SGT

1/1945

ABRAMS/LUXEMBOURG
- KILLED

WIEDENHAFT,
HAROLD

UNKNOWN/PFC

10/1944

PULASKI/FRANCE
- KILLED

WILDE,
ELLSWORTH

UNKNOWN/CPL

5/27/1945

OCONTO/ITALY
- KILLED

WUSTERBARTH,
D.E.

UNKNOWN/UNKNOWN

11/1945

OCONTO
CITY/UNKNOWN - KILLED

WYSS,
ELSWORTH

CO. C.,
127TH/PFC

8/1944

OCONTO/FRANCE
- KILLED

ZITSKE,
ALBERT

UNKNOWN/UNKNOWN/TD>

11/1945

MOUNTAIN/UNKNOWN
- KILLED (VFW
Post in
Mountain, Oconto, WI is named in his honor - contributed
by Ed Palmer)